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While the fires continue to rage in Victoria I’m thankful at how fortunate we were not to have timed our trip slightly differently – almost every area of Victoria we explored has been affected by bushfire to a greater or lesser degree: the Dandenong ranges, the Grampians, Wilson’s Promontory, the Yarra Valley, Ballarat, Bacchas Marsh, Dunkeld, Sale, and along the Hume and Newell highways that we took out of Victoria to return to Tamworth for Australia Day.

There a doubtless many such long-shot “it could have been us” stories out there, but sadly it doesn’t affect the huge loss of life that has occured.